Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2016 18:04:14 GMT -5
Hey, Sirra.
I dig your ranger guide, and enjoyed these logs. Got any more of Nadhir/rangers being OP as fuck? Also, seriously, how did you manage to land those stats?
sorry but not sorry to necro this.
|
|
|
Post by sirra on Mar 25, 2016 23:51:32 GMT -5
Hey, Sirra. I dig your ranger guide, and enjoyed these logs. Got any more of Nadhir/rangers being OP as fuck? Also, seriously, how did you manage to land those stats? sorry but not sorry to necro this. I got a few logs kicking around here somewhere, but those were the best. The 120 day giant (that I twink-trained up), and the way maxed out staff NPC. You know an NPC is rocking max Defense, when you haven't had a dodge in half a year until they came along. The rest is less exciting. Once you've ridden down and killed one elf, you've seen them all. The only ones people might find interesting, I'd have to go hunting for. The best one would probably be killing the mindbender working for Salarr. Nadhir was never terribly subtle about murder. He'd just knock people out and drag them somewhere. One thing Nadhir did, that noone ever realized, is that he killed the newly promoted southern Salarri sergeant after hearing he was talking shit about getting revenge for the mindbender girl. He rode down, said 'hey', told him to follow him into the sparring area, where there were no NPCs. It was night time. He turned, knocked him out in about two hits, killed him, put his corpse in one of those Expansion Division carryalls, and then kept his body in there, while chatting to his trainee hunters who showed up looking for him. Then I had to go deal with something else in the city, so before I know it, I'm dragging that fucking corpse all over town, in my suspiciously super-heavy duffel bag. By the time I was able to leave, it had decayed inside it. Nadhir was fun. But in the end, all it meant was that when people used shady means and OOC/AIM collaboration to kill him (people thought he had like 4 rings or some stupid shit - he had 1), all staff did was breathe a sigh of relief rather than actually punishing the cheaters. People who bragged about what they did to someone they thought was sympathetic to them, and I had a log of. The same people who would do the same shit again, and then go on to finally lose karma for it (according to a former staffer that posted here about it). I also had my approved Byn mul app retroactively rejected by Nyr, for my trouble. That's the problem with staff. They regard any accumulation of power by a player as being somehow in competition with them. Unless it's an elaborate circle jerk plot with poor writing. But still. You would have thought they'd see the red flags, when a character's murder is masterminded by 3-4 PCs, and all those PCs just happened to be former players of PCs that Nadhir killed in the past.
|
|
grumble
GDB Superstar
toxic shithead
Destroyer of Worlds
Posts: 1,619
|
Post by grumble on Mar 26, 2016 9:30:45 GMT -5
You're kind of an asshole, Sirra, but likely a good roleplayer. I'm not saying the AIM crew was justified in doing it, that's a level of douchebaggery I'd never stoop to, I'm a lot more likely to just move on and play in an area far away from the asshole that fucked me over... and if I kept getting killed by the same wandering asshole, I'd start to consider another game. I like to think our characters would have meshed well, however, and I would likely have been helping your rampant assholery, but you have to admit you can kind of see how it happened. Not condoning it by any means, it's pretty goddamn petty your PC was killed like that, but I can sympathize with the idiots that did it.
EDIT: Also, killing a PC in a sparring area around vNPC witnesses is kind of a dick move. I'm sure you were justified, and had the rank to pull it off, but that's really pushing it.
|
|
king
Clueless newb
Posts: 118
|
Post by king on Mar 26, 2016 10:30:03 GMT -5
Ah, sparring areas. The preferred method of all droopy-eyed Bynners when you're fucking their mate.
It's nice to see people still pay homage to the move.
|
|
grumble
GDB Superstar
toxic shithead
Destroyer of Worlds
Posts: 1,619
|
Post by grumble on Mar 26, 2016 16:44:21 GMT -5
EDIT: Also, even though I would never play the game the way you reccomended, your ranger guide was pretty badass and informative. I love how it's worded.
|
|
|
Post by sirra on Mar 27, 2016 23:59:46 GMT -5
You're kind of an asshole, Sirra, but likely a good roleplayer. I'm not saying the AIM crew was justified in doing it, that's a level of douchebaggery I'd never stoop to, I'm a lot more likely to just move on and play in an area far away from the asshole that fucked me over... and if I kept getting killed by the same wandering asshole, I'd start to consider another game. I like to think our characters would have meshed well, however, and I would likely have been helping your rampant assholery, but you have to admit you can kind of see how it happened. Not condoning it by any means, it's pretty goddamn petty your PC was killed like that, but I can sympathize with the idiots that did it. EDIT: Also, killing a PC in a sparring area around vNPC witnesses is kind of a dick move. I'm sure you were justified, and had the rank to pull it off, but that's really pushing it. It was at night, without any vnpcs around. Just them. It was emoted just being them. Trust me, staff hated me enough, and the PC in question was enough of a staff pet, that if it was remotely sketchy, I'd have gotten reamed out. But no one ever mentioned it. And I got my ass ripped for killing an NPC, that people grind-killed for years to get his boots, and he must've died 400 times. It was a bit more carefully done than I flippantly described it. But I understand your point. And I'd agree Nadhir was a huge asshole. He wasn't even that nice to his friends. He liked both Dream and Grom, and you can see those logs here. But the difference is that I kept it IC, and they took it OOC. I.E, Grom posting on the GDB that Nadhir had a bunch've magic rings. Ah, sparring areas. The preferred method of all droopy-eyed Bynners when you're fucking their mate. It's nice to see people still pay homage to the move. Yep. In my younger days, I killed at least two or three fellow Runners and tossed em into the latrines. I feel worse about those, than I do about anything Nadhir did. Because I should've been bitched out for it, except staff didn't care about newbie Runners. Unlike in most games, Armageddon staff primarily only cares about their diehard veterans, and more or less despises newbies. Nadhir never once picked on a newbie. Having bad grammar or the name Amos, was all it took to get on Nadhir's good side, if you were trying to learn the ropes. And again: There's a huge difference between killing someone during sparring hours, and being all like, 'hey, we're sergeants, we can do whatever we want. Who cares if it's midnight? Let's go box a little. Oh, sorry, did i knock you out? Let me get my smelling salts, I mean, crystalline longknife. His trainees showed up cause I was waiting until the gates opened, and then morning came, and then I was wayed to go deal with other crap, and I just ended up walking around Allanak for a couple hours with a corpse in my carryall.
|
|
OT
Displaced Tuluki
Posts: 257
|
Post by OT on Mar 28, 2016 1:35:54 GMT -5
Sometimes, staff can be so adamant in their insistence that players take the virutal world into account that it's staff themselves who fail to do so. In the virtual world, rooms are not just under constant surveillance 24/7 (unless it's expressly a place where that's expected) and people are not infallible bastions of attentiveness. It should be entirely possible to wait until the latrines are empty before you stab Runner Retardface because you just hate him so much that you can't bear the idea of having to be in the clan with him. Instead of allowing for the possibility that you were waiting until it was safe to do this, staff will typically assume that you did it in front of a bunch of virtual people and ignored that they were there.
|
|
|
Post by sirra on Mar 29, 2016 0:38:43 GMT -5
Sometimes, staff can be so adamant in their insistence that players take the virutal world into account that it's staff themselves who fail to do so. Rather than 'sometimes' this has been the bulk of my experience in dealing with staff.
|
|
grumble
GDB Superstar
toxic shithead
Destroyer of Worlds
Posts: 1,619
|
Post by grumble on Mar 29, 2016 12:22:22 GMT -5
Gotcha, Sirra, it sounds totally legit. And yeah, I agree, they shouldn't have fucked you OOCly like that. There was never a doubt in my mind that Nadhir getting screwed over like that was wrong.
EDIT: But you know me. I say what's on my mind. In this case, I was wrong, and I'm willing to be wrong because that's how we grow and learn as people. I know you know this, I'm just saying it for the benefit of others.
|
|
|
Post by sirra on Apr 2, 2016 22:51:20 GMT -5
Gotcha, Sirra, it sounds totally legit. And yeah, I agree, they shouldn't have fucked you OOCly like that. There was never a doubt in my mind that Nadhir getting screwed over like that was wrong. EDIT: But you know me. I say what's on my mind. In this case, I was wrong, and I'm willing to be wrong because that's how we grow and learn as people. I know you know this, I'm just saying it for the benefit of others. I could be a dumbass too. Abuzer recently shared a snippet of an old log with me, that at the time was annoying, but in hindsight, is a bit funny. In this log, I glanced at my glowing, humming magic ring, while attempting to glance at a ring of stones. After this, I started wearing like 10 rings. Zeev was one of my favorite dudes. All of the tribal humans were great too (Aranel?). Interesting fact: Just about every newbie that Nadhir trained up, eventually went on to become sergeants in other clans, on later PCs. I saw three of them in the Kuraci forum archives. What I regret most is that after Nadhir died, I let two people retire their maxed out rangers, to make a family app with me. But I was still too annoyed by Nadhir's circumstances and I boned them after a couple RL weeks, and then didn't play again for a year. I wish I'd encouraged them to keep playing, and that having people you love and admire die suddenly and bizarrely for no reason in the game, is what makes Armageddon great. I felt like I did those two a huge disservice by playing along. I'd rather they'd all gone on and been like Abuzer.
|
|